What was the Tunguska event?

Correct answer: Large Siberian explosion attributed to a meteor

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What people think about it: 30 Comments
nimblemoon
nimblemoon
I once had a college professor tell me to pick the most complicated answer if there were multiple choices and I was stuck. Teachers rock!
Lady V
Lady V
Such a mystery, how very lucky that this happened in a low population zone. For anyone interested there are some excellent documentaries available on YouTube about this event.
Player.    Ty
Player. Ty
FIRE IN THE SKY.....GREAT BOOK!👽
meggieth1000
meggieth1000
Very cool
OfficiousOrthodoxy10
OfficiousOrthodoxy10
I would like to read that
Player #9623282
Player #9623282
comet. made of ice at deep space temperatures, which sublimated directly to vapor from a solid state, exploding as a tremendous shock wave, then dissipating as water vapor, leaving no trace but perhaps a suddenly appearing and vanishing extremely dense cloud.
Player #25874027
Player #25874027
Mac, It did not land, there is no crater. It was an airburst, which by your own comment means it was not a meteorite.
Player SQinfoNUTS
Player SQinfoNUTS
nimblemoon, excellent advice and unless the photograph is followed by a question, "who is this" the picture never ever has anything to do with the question.
bribiepete
bribiepete
slomogeo, it created thousands of square kilometres of flattened trees, all splayed out in lines away from the centre. In the centre trees remained standing but stripped of their branches.
Perfumella
Perfumella
Mac, It didn't hit the ground, so it was a meteor.
Simon
Simon
Apparently it wiped out over 1M Reindeer
Clown Boss
Clown Boss
Mac, who knew a suffix could be so dangerous
bribiepete
bribiepete
Mac, except it didn't impact the earth, it exploded many kilometres above ground, so it's not a meteorite.
bribiepete
bribiepete
Player #9623282, inaccurate but well written 🤣
Player #38208286
Player #38208286
Yeah, this sounds great and all, but it was Tesla.
Player #32580779
Player #32580779
in the valley of death in Russia there are ancient structures described as kettles that are rumoured to be some kind of alien defense system and shot down the meteorite
slomogeo
slomogeo
Player #25874027, so the friction and melted water vapor created what?
Bill
Bill
I knew this from Ghostbusters lol. Ray Stanz mentioned it.
JuicyLucyLocket
JuicyLucyLocket
Osiris, me too!!! Soon as I saw the word Tunguska...i had the answer 🤓
Mac
Mac
If a meteoroid enters the Earth's atmosphere and vaporises, it becomes a meteor, which is often called a shooting star. If a small asteroid or large meteoroid survives its fiery passage through the Earth's atmosphere and lands on the Earth's surface, it is then called a meteorite. Therefore the impact cannot have been caused by a meteor but a meteorite.
Osiris
Osiris
the X Files taught me that
CoerciveLightning3
CoerciveLightning3
tel me about it
CoerciveLightning3
CoerciveLightning3
nice can u name them all or not because I am into things like that but before I got into it I loved draving my mum around the bend so when I think I know the names of them can u tel me thanks
JiltedBubble72629
JiltedBubble72629
nimblemoon, hard onr
kman
kman
never knew it was the largeat
Bambroooch
Bambroooch
didn’t hear of it
Vercingetorix
Vercingetorix
lucky they have the empty space for the occacional meteor shower
Toisha
Toisha
tystyx, thanx Tystyx. I will have to find that book.
Birdiemom
Birdiemom
tystyx, perhaps they meant 'turned' as in tumbling, rather than changing direction.
KookyOrangutan5005
KookyOrangutan5005
I just had a question that the answer was July 2013 a meteor hit Russia. that two!! scary.